You will be working closely with key stakeholders across the Whole-of-Government to ensure alignment of policies, product strategy, implementation and strategic communications in line with the overall national agenda. You will connect issues with larger systems which include industry/training partners and identify inter-dependencies across workstreams to achieve collective outcomes. You will also lead secretariat duties, including tracking and reporting of programme outcomes.

Senior Manager, Policy and Programme Management (PED)
SkillsFuture Singapore
What the role is
You will be working closely with key stakeholders across the Whole-of-Government to ensure alignment of policies, product strategy, implementation and strategic communications in line with the overall national agenda. You will connect issues with larger systems which include industry/training partners and identify inter-dependencies across workstreams to achieve collective outcomes. You will also lead secretariat duties, including tracking and reporting of programme outcomes.
What you will be working on
Role and responsibilities:
- Policy development and programme management
- Support the conceptualisation and finetuning of policy and programme parameters
- Convert policies into customer-centric solutions for the TA initiative
- Develop and maintain robust monitoring frameworks to track programme effectiveness and outcomes
- Manage budget planning
- Stakeholder management and communication
- Build and maintain strong relationship with key stakeholders across government agencies to ensure alignment in implementation and ensure smooth change management
- Lead secretariat duties for strategic meetings
- Coordinate responses to public enquiries and stakeholder feedback
- Establish and maintain up-to-date communication materials to proliferate awareness of the TA initiative
- Data analytics
- Leverage data analytics to drive policy refinements and enhance programme impact
- Monitor and analyse programme outcomes against established KPIs
- Provide evidence-based recommendation for policy improvements
- Develop regular reports on programme performance and budget utilisation
What we are looking for
- 7 to 10 years of experience in policy work and stakeholder engagement in complex settings
- Strong project and timeline management skills
- Conscientious planner with strategic foresight, able to translate broad problem statements into specific policies and identify key issues of relevance
- Strong policy implementation, analytical, writing, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Enjoys tackling challenges and solving complex issues, able to distil key issues from a complex set of information and synthesise diverse and conflicting range of information to shape policy, develop solutions, interventions and frameworks
- Adaptable and comfortable with operating in an ambiguous, uncertain and fast-moving environment
- Able to work well independently as well as in a team
- Has a keen interest in careers and skills policies
Successful candidates will be offered a 2-year contract in the first instance and may be considered for an extension or be placed on a permanent tenure
Candidates are encouraged to sign up for a Careers & Skills Passport (CSP) account and include your CSP public profile in your resume. Please check out www.myskillsfuture.gov.sg for details on the CSP.
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About your application process
If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the job ad closing date, we seek your understanding that it is likely that we are not moving forward with your application for this role. We thank you for your interest and would like to assure you that this does not affect your other job applications with the Public Service. We encourage you to explore and apply for other roles within SkillsFuture Singapore or the wider Public Service.